{"author_name":"David Colson","cat":"LD #22","comments":[],"epoch":1324309080,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"60312","p_author":"David Colson","p_authorkey":"7076","p_urlkey":"96065","p_title":"Post Mortem And TimeLapse Of Apollo Kepler-22b","p_cat":"LD #22","p_event":"LD22","p_time":"1324309080","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"7076","us_name":"David Colson","us_username":"peripheralgames","event_start":"1323993600","event_key":"8","event_name":"LD22"},"text":"<p>Right well everyone else is doing post mortems I suppose I should too!<\/p>\n <p>Seriously though it&#8217;s nice being able to look over what happened, so here we go,<\/p>\n <p>The Good:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>I started with a simple idea that took 10 minutes to plan out which didn&#8217;t get me bogged down at the start so I had far more time to actually work on the game. Infact the large majority of the game was design and planned during the course of the 2 days.<\/li>\n <li>I was very familiar with all the tools I used and so there wasn&#8217;t an awful lot that slowed me down.<\/li>\n <li>I am very happy with the graphics of my game as I was worried before the competition what to do about textures but I ended up being creative and made my own in Paint.NET<\/li>\n <li>I took frequent breaks from my computer which made me feel less tired of staring at a computer screen and I felt made me more productive.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>The Bad:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>I feel I got the balance wrong and the game was too difficult.<\/li>\n <li>As stated in my journal entries I had a lot of trouble with sound design and music as this is not my strong area(practice needed)<\/li>\n <li>I am not a hundered percent happy with the gameplay in the first part of the game, I feel it was too slow and unexciting which may put people off playing through to the later stages of the game<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>Overall though I am extremely happy with what I did in my first LD and I will undoubtedly be back for more next time! My game can be found and rated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-22\/?action=preview&amp;uid=7076\">here.<\/a>\u00a0And my timelapse of 27 hours can be watched right <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/CjDA9kI7DYg\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/postmortem\/\" rel=\"tag\">postmortem<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 19th, 2011 10:38 am","title":"Post Mortem And TimeLapse Of Apollo Kepler-22b"}